Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

Just Breathe. Can we really alter our physical and mental states by doing breath work?

So I breathe just to live, as you do. I walk to live. I eat and drink and sleep to live. Is there a benefit to breathing more or differently than just for necessity? Well, as I thought about it, I do walk more than necessary for my health and fitness, and I go so far as to run quite a lot. I don't know that I eat and drink more

for my health, but I do eat and drink better differently than the norm, just for survival.

I definitely sleep more than necessary for pure survival. So even though it's never really been a focus,

it makes sense that the breathing I do to keep me alive might also give me

a benefit if I did more than just the minimums to do so and differently as well. And as I thought

about it, you know, breathing, I mean, we do it to bring oxygen into our bodies. And the more oxygen,

the more benefit. I live at high altitude, and those people who are compromised

go around with little oxygen tanks, actually. Well, as you're about to hear, the concept of

breath and breathing is an incredibly frequent term also just outside of physiology,

in spirituality. I looked it up. It appears 137 times in the Bible alone, and it's not just a reference to physiology.

When this podcast, I sit down with Francesca Sipma.

She's author of Unblock Your Purpose, Breathwork, Intuition, and Flow State.

She's founder and CEO of Mastery, M-A-S-T-R-Y.

It's an online app that gives you breathwork sessions, actually leads you through

them. Francesca is also the creator of hypno-breathwork and a renowned international speaker who's

become one of the premier personalities and sources for the power of breathwork. So I just found Francesca to be really down to earth and

tangible to help me understand this concept of breathwork. And I'm now a client of hers and mastery.

As you're going to hear, I'm really interested in a method that I can practice, something I can do

to alter and enhance my physiology and my

psychology, my very soul in essence, without necessarily jumping through the hoops of

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